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Re: English constructions - Resources needed

Thanks Anglika for the useful reply. Even though I need to improve my English sentence construction skills, what I wanted was something that makes me express [complex] ideas as I do in my mother tongue. Learning sentence "grammar" alone may not realize that objective.

After reading your post above, I made several Google search queries. Among the results was a "thesaurus of cliches", find it here. I also found my example snippet, "not to mention" there. I think that site has some useful stuff to get by, but it lacks usage examples.

There is always more than one way to express an idea but as a native speaker you sometimes pick up a language structure or pattern from your "language bag" when you write. Aside from grammar and vocabulary, you often can tell a native writer from an English language learner by sentences flow, cues, cliches, etc.